Well thats it, finished!
Having used the range for a few months and finding out little things about it as you go, I have made some small adjustments. One is the ability to easily and quickly remove the safety rail as it can get in the way when using side leaver rifles. All I did was to weld on large wings on top to the bolts and weld up some captive nuts on the inside of the floor. The other little thing is kinda obvious now its done, and that is a switch to turn off the target lights! Although 99% of the time you are shooting in there, sometimes you're just talking or scoring cards, so the lights may was well be off. Like I say, it's the little things that make the difference.
The 9mm backstop is now cut and fitted and this will give more than adequate stopping power to any pellet that finds it's way through the front backboard. The range is strictly sub 6fp anyway, so no need to go over board!
Another picture shows my working but unfinished bell target placed on the sled base. This is why the sled has a large base, to catch the odd rebounding pellet and for putting other target types on.
One other thing I noticed when I made the original wooden movable backstop that was simply shoved in the tunnel and pushed down with a long pole, was the sagging target cord. Once the target holders are set-up at say 10m, all other distances have the targets placed too low because of the sag in the cord! So because the range now has a fully adjustable sled backstop, I will be running into this problem a lot! The issue was solved by soldering on a brass bar with a hole drilled down it's back and a small thumb screw. Now once the range distance has been set, you simply send the target frame down range with no card in it, use the spotting scope to see how low the frame is, bring it back and adjust accordingly with just the turn of the thumb screw. It's a two second job to adjust the height of the frame now.
The rolling target sled works very well indeed and I have also worked out how to send it back down the range without getting caught up on the cable, so it is now very much a one man job to set any distance in a few seconds. The only job I do still have left to do that I will not show here is screwing on a little pointer onto the sled and little coloured dots on the tube at measured distances (6yd 7yd 10m). I don't think anybody needs to see that, it's self-explanatory.
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Well that's it from me, construction finished and now 'second thought' tweaks now all finished.
Hopefully this thread will inspire somebody one day and spark a thought or two.
Or maybe not!
Anyhoo, I'm done.
See ya.
Rob.
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